This could be how Trump’s momentum ends: Why his flip-flop on self-funding undercuts his appeal

Trump has been pledging to self-fund his campaign. Even for a figure of his MASSIVE WEALTH, that’s not easy

Like most people who own stock, Donald Trump’s net worth has suffered in recent days. The Washington Post’s rough back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that Trump has lost up to $4.5 million in the market during its current dip. It’s not like that’s going send him crawling into the poor house anytime soon. And the candidate himself is dealing with the dreary financial news the same way deals with everything: by trying to pick a fistfight with China, the very large country, “and Asia.”

Markets are crashing – all caused by poor planning and allowing China and Asia to dictate the agenda. This could get very messy! Vote Trump.

It’s much nicer when other people just donate money to you or your super PAC while you keep all of your own money. Trump is beginning to recognize this. It was reported over the weekend that in mid-July, Trump attended and briefly spoke at a fundraiser for the Make America Great Again PAC. (Three guesses whose candidacy that super PAC is intended to support.) Politico reports that “about 200 people packed into a private residence in Manhattan” to hear Trump speak and then, for whatever reason, pledge high-dollar donations to make him the most powerful human on earth. This in addition to the recent online fundraising drive he launched to fund his official campaign, in which he promised to match donor contributions.

Trump has confirmed that he’s accepting donations large and small. “I would even take big contributors, as long as they don’t expect anything,” is how he put it to “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson. On Monday’s “Fox & Friends,” he said that he will accept big fat-cat donations “only if there’s no strings whatsoever attached. The only strings attached is I wanna make America great again.” Who doesn’t wanna Make America Great Again? The problem is that some of these big donors think the best way to Make America Great Again is to carve out a loophole in the tax code, for each of them, personally.